Copper-oxygen Adducts: New Trends in Characterization and Properties Towards C-H Activation

Overview

Journal Chem Sci

Publisher Royal Society of Chemistry

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2024 Jul 12

PMID 38994420

Authors

Jonathan De Tovar

Rebecca Leblay

Yongxing Wang

Laurianne Wojcik

Aurore Thibon-Pourret

Marius Reglier

A Jalila Simaan

Nicolas Le Poul

Catherine Belle

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Abstract

This review summarizes the latest discoveries in the field of C-H activation by copper monoxygenases and more particularly by their bioinspired systems. This work first describes the recent background on copper-containing enzymes along with additional interpretations about the nature of the active copper-oxygen intermediates. It then focuses on relevant examples of bioinorganic synthetic copper-oxygen intermediates according to their nuclearity (mono to polynuclear). This includes a detailed description of the spectroscopic features of these adducts as well as their reactivity towards the oxidation of recalcitrant C -H bonds. The last part is devoted to the significant expansion of heterogeneous catalytic systems based on copper-oxygen cores ( within zeolite frameworks).

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